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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
I disagree with your "everyone's" response.
Having a child is a personal choice. Why should I, or you, or anyone else, be obligated to expend our own funds and efforts to care for someone that we had no choice in creating?
If your neighbor can't feed their child*, perhaps the neighbor shouldn't have had the child in the first place.
* I'm not talking about short-term money problems, where a family is in need of food assistance for a few months because a parent got injured or laid off and the parent is scrambling to get a job; I'm referring to where a family has more offspring than they can reasonably afford to manage or where a family essentially uses government support as their job.
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While I fully agree with the principle of what you are saying; I still prefer to pay a minimum amout through taxes so that the same child doesn't stab me when they enter the dangerous years between 15-25yrs old.
The choice comes down to paying higher taxes (Canada) or building bigger walls/arming ourselves (USA). In the end it doesn't really bother me too much that 50% of a paycheck goes to help.